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Stock markets are down some 50% from their peaks in 2000, back to their 1997-98 levels,
but carrying half a decade’s more debt, leverage, and speculation. How far and how
fast we fall, is largely a matter of actions taken, or not taken, on fundamental economic
policy. The future of mankind depends on those people who respond to the crisis by
reexamining the axioms which caused them to be deluded, and by figuring out why Lyndon
LaRouche could see so clearly, what they did not.

Economics

The New Partnership for Africa’s Development (Nepad), a plan of African Presidents
to get aid and investment from the developed countries, in exchange for policies of
privatization, austerity, and political good behavior, has done negative service of
raising for African debate, the vital alternative: industrialization.

International

The Israeli Prime Minister, backed by Labor Party members of his Cabinet including
Foreign Minister Shimon Peres, ordered the bombing in Gaza precisely at the point
that strenuous international efforts had nearly organized a cease-fire.

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Interviews

A British-born Lecturer in the faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Universiti Putra Malaysia,
Selangor, Malaysia, Mr. Davis studied biochemistry in Britain, worked in animal husbandry
in Australia, and has been active for many years in R&D for Malaysian agriculture.

National

Beyond the well-known weaknesses of President George W. Bush and his immediate circle
of Presidential advisers, the greatest obstacle to effective leadership from the institution
of the U.S. Presidency, is the insurgency against the Bush Presidency, led by Senators
Joseph Lieberman (D-Conn.) and John McCain (R-Ariz.).

“Some people who ought to know better, exclaim, ‘But, LaRouche is not electable!’
Do not become upset when you hear such foolish things being said. When people say
that, they are not actually thinking; it is just another case of a mouth shooting
itself off in a knee-jerk, Pavlovian reflex.”